Spinning pipe gas lens aberrations along the axis and in the boundary layer

When the walls of an open-ended horizontal steel pipe are heated before the pipe is rotated along its axis, the exchange of the expelled heated air with the incoming cooler air, sucked in along the axis, results in a medium capable of focusing a laser beam propagating along the pipe’s axis – a spinn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cosmas Mafusire, Andrew Forbes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academy of Science of South Africa 2013-11-01
Series:South African Journal of Science
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Online Access:https://www.sajs.co.za/article/view/4018